Last Week and The Future

Our screening last week went very well. Good crowd. Lots of laughter and a substantive Q&A. I love hearing people who have seen it before say that they liked it even more the second time. That is one of the most gratifying compliments I can get.

I'm expecting another good house at our screening next month in Philadelphia.

I've also been lining up teaching jobs and will be leading several summer film camp sessions through the Austin Film Festival and an Adult Film History class through the JCAA. So, if you or your kids are interested, let me know and I can point you in the right directions.

New Initiative

Trillian called yesterday and has chosen Fifth Form to be part of their new sales initiative. They're streamlining their distribution process so that everything can take place online and should be sending out a focused package of films to about a thousand different outlets within the next two months.

The head of distribution described the process like this, "Once everything's online, it will be like getting a DVD on Amazon. DVD and TV distributors will just have to click on our site and we'll have everything available for them." Their parent company, Media 8, has put a lot of manpower and financial muscle behind this and I'm hoping that Fifth Form will be more widely available soon.

Hometown Screening

Couldn't be happier with how last night's event at the Harrisburg JCC turned out. Wonderful job promoting it by the Jewish Festival Director and the Patriot-News. If you haven't seen the article, the link is on the film's facebook page. Many positive responses from 15 and 80 year olds. Apparently the film has broad appeal.

It Continues

We're getting together all of the pieces that Trillian needs to properly sell the film. That part should be completed soon.

I was interviewed yesterday by a new website that focuses on dad-artists. It was a lot of fun and really interesting to discuss how my process of writing and my vision of it has changed since Sander has come along. It's not something that I get to just talk about all the time especially since I don't run in to too many other dads during the day.

I'll post it everywhere once the interview goes up. Hope I look good.

Distro Time

It's official. After a bizarre back and forth, the contracts are signed and we've been in touch with Trillian Entertainment who we are excited to have as our sales agent and distributor. I hope this means that there will be more good news as Fifth Form gets handled by the pros.

We're signed!

We sent in a signed contract on Friday and will start gathering together what we've got to send over to the folks at our distributor. I still don't want to say who until we talk to them next week and I know for sure that it's okay for me to do so. Funny but they're actually serious about this stuff. Very good news and this means Fifth Form will be on sale soon, I presume.

Big Week

We returned to Columbia and Haverford this weekend for screenings. It was the first time I've gotten to do a Q&A with Bill which was a blast. I got to screen it for my mentor who approved enthusiastically which was validating. We have signed contracts and returned them to the distributor. One step forward...